Millard Richard Shaull

Background

Millard Richard Shaull was born on November 24, 1919, in Felton, Pennsylvania, United States. He was a son of Millard Shaull and Anna Shaull, maiden name Brenneman.

Education

Richard Shaull earned a Bachelor of Arts in 1938 and a Doctor of Divinity in 1958 from Elizabethtown College. He earned a Bachelor of Theology in 1941, a Master of Theology in 1946, and a Doctor of Theology in 1959 from Princeton Theological Seminary.

Career

In 1941-1942, Richard Shaull worked as a pastor in, Wink, Texas. In 1942-1950, he was a missionary in Colombia. Shaull then moved to Brazil, where he was a professor of church history at Campinas Theological Seminary in 1952-1960, and a vice president of the Mackenzie Institute in Sao Paulo in 1960-1962. Returning to his alma mater in 1962, Richard Shaull taught ecumenics there until his retirement in 1980. In 1983-1989, he was an academic director of Instituto Pastoral Hispano in New York.

Richard Shaull was the author of several books, some in Portuguese and German, including Heralds of a New Reformation: The Poor of South and North America (1984), The Reformation and Liberation Theology: Insights for the Challenges Today (1991), and the cowritten work Pentecostalism and the Future of the Christian Churches: Promises, Limitations, Challenges (2000).

Achievements

• Richard Shaull became an emeritus professor of ecumenics at Princeton Theological Seminary. He also took high positions in other institutions and had several books published.

Works

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  • Pentecostalism and the Future of the Christian Churches

    (In a world marked by suffering and poverty, traditional f...)

    2000
  • The Reformation and Liberation Theology: Insights for the Challenges of Today

    (Using sound theology, Richard Shaull helps all Christians...)

    1991
  • Containment and Change Two Dissenting Views of American Foreign Policy
  • Containment And Change 1967
  • Heralds of a New Reformation: The Poor of South and North America 1984
  • Naming the Idols: Biblical Alternatives for U.S. Foreign Policy 1988
  • Encounter with Revolution 1955
  • Liberation and Change 1977

Religion

Richard Shaull was ordained to the ministry in Presbyterian Church in 1941.

Views

Quotations: "There is no such thing as a neutral educational process. Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate the integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity to it, or it becomes the practice of freedom, the means by which men and women deal critically and creatively with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world."

"The use of religion, psychoanalysis, or the mass media, as instruments by which people are helped to adjust to a dehumanizing social order without being challenged to change it, is essentially a betrayal of man."

Membership

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  For the World Student Christian Federation, Richard Shaull served as a chairperson in 1968-1973 and consultant in Latin America and in Germany, France, India, Japan, and Korea.

  World Student Christian Federation

  1968 - 1973

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  In 1968-1973, Richard Shaull served as a chairperson of the North America Congress Latin American.

  North America Congress Latin American , United States

  1966 - 1989

Connections

Richard Shaull married Mildred Miller on May 17, 1941. They divorced in May 1975. They had two daughters: Madelyn and Wendy. He married Nancy Johns on April 14, 1981.

Father:

Millard Shaull

Mother:

Anna Shaull

Daughter:

Wendy Shaull

Daughter:

Madelyn Shaull

Wife:

Nancy Johns

Richard Shaull and Nancy Johns together did volunteer missionary work in Latin America.

ex-wife:

Mildred Miller

Sister:

Jane Keesey

Sister:

June Stroup

Brother:

George Shaull

References

• Contextual Theology and Revolutionary Transformation in Latin America: The Missiology of M. Richard Shaull
  2010